Posted on 10/09/2002 8:42:41 AM PDT by vannrox
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:24 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) --Captain Cook fans who credit the English explorer-adventurer with the formal "discovery" of eastern Australia may have to think again.
History teacher Greg Jefferys said on Tuesday he believed he had found remains of a Portuguese warship buried under a beach in what is now the state of Queensland and he had dated the wreck to as much as 200 years before James Cook landed in Botany Bay.
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